
(F39)_Job:12-40337 Title:RP-Design Elements 2nd Edition
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color fundamentals
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CHROMATIC INTERACTION
Color Relationships Since the fifteenth
century, artists and scientists have been
creating methods for organizing color
perception in visual models. A color model
helps a designer see these relationships for
planning color ideas. Of these, the most
common is the color wheel, developed
by Albert Munsell, a British painter and
scientist. Munsell’s color wheel is a circular
representation of hue—the differences in
wavelength that distinguish blue from
yellow from red—modified along ...